Those who predicted a drought for 2012 were certainly on the mark. The beans and corn are close t...

Good news, there is a very strong honey flow in progress here around Cedar Rapids. The overwinter...

I've spent the past couple of weeks going around and checking queen acceptance in my splits and v...

For folks looking for 2012 queens, I have a good number of Carniolans and Italians available. My ...

You have probably seen many pictures of honeybees flying around or in a beehive. This video is a ...

I decided to post a couple of pictures that show exactly how industrious the bees have been able ...

The winter of 2011-2012 was pretty much nonexistent. We had a couple of weeks of colder weather h...

It's package bee season once more at Ebert Honey Co., so I've copied a note from Phil. Call him ...

Thanks to everyone across the US who ordered queens this year! I hope they keep your hives happy ...

We are well along with the 2011 honey harvest, and treatments for varroa mites are underway. The ...

The other day Alex and I went up to pickup some bee equipment in northern Iowa. One of the items ...

The San Diego adventure concluded last night, and I recalled that one of our first site-seeing st...

Alex and I are out in San Diego for a few days because he is competing in the State Games of Amer...

I use the three-deep method of building queen cells. The basis of the system is a queen-right col...

I decided that I had better get some more Carniolan queens on hand for people that need immediate...

I have a lot of coneflowers at my place, and it has been fun to watch the bees working them inte...

Thanks for all the calls on queens so far this year--it seems to increase every summer. I'm worki...

Hi everyone, The queen yard is back in action. Queens will be available throughout the summer--I...

The long-awaited warmup seems to be here. We're looking at 30s-50s for the next several days, so ...

The next few weeks are an important time to investigate whether or not your survivors need feed. ...

A friend sent me this today It's rather perfect.

Today I have a nice image of how Alex is feeding the hungry hives. The boxes are offset in order ...

All of our bees got their Apiguard treatment before the beginning of October, so hopefully we'll ...

It's been a while since the last update. I'm back at Mount Mercy University for the new academic ...

My favorite part of our business is taking care of bees. They're just interesting--it's so much f...

We are making some progress on mite control for this fall. We stripped the boxes off two more yar...

The rain falls again. We've had torrential rains overnight all week, and today it is falling duri...

Well, we've made it into early August. The colony average will be respectable, but it will take a...

I've noticed that a number of people coming to the blog site are looking on information about how...

We have a neighbor just west of our place who has allowed us to keep bees in his pasture/timber l...

Back in late May we put out our 6 5/8 honey boxes and started to await the first honey flow. We o...

This is just rude....and wrong. Spring seems to be here early this year. This is good. Varro Mite...

What do people do when the weather forecast is for a severe snow storm? Run to the grocery store ...

Hello hello--an update from overseas!!! I'm presently over in Scotland doing some research in Edi...

Along with brood production, spring pollen gathering is another good sign of happy bees. Looki...

Brood activity begins long before there is much to do outside of the hive. First things first...